The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I.: Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments — Page 9

Vocabulary

ဘဂ္ဒတ်

ba-ga-dat — Baghdad, capital city of modern Iraq

၏

e — Possessive or linking particle in Burmese grammar

အာရပ်

a-yat — Arab; relating to Arab people or culture

အင်ပါယာ

ain-pa-ya — Empire; large territory under single authority

ပြိုလဲ

pyoe-lè — To collapse or fall apart suddenly

ကျဆုံး

kya-hsone — To fall, decline, or be defeated

ချိန်

chein — Time, moment; also to aim or measure

မှ

hma — From; particle indicating source or origin

စ၍

si-yway — Starting from; beginning with a point

ကိုင်ရို

kaing-yo — Cairo, capital city of Egypt

သည်

thì — Topic marker or present tense verb particle

မြို့တော်

myoe-daw — Capital city of a country or region

များ

mya — Plural marker; many or numerous things

အနက်

a-net — Meaning or definition of a word

အဓိက

a-di-ka — Main, primary, or most important element

ဖြစ်လာ

phyit-la — To become; to come into existence gradually

ခဲ့

khè — Past tense marker indicating completed action

၎င်း

da-gin — It, he, she, they; formal pronoun reference

မမ်လုခ်

mam-loat — Mamluk; medieval slave-soldier ruling class

ဆူလ်တန်

soul-tan — Sultan; Muslim ruler or sovereign title

ငယ်ရွယ်

ngè-ywè — Young in age; youthful period of life

စဉ်

sin — During; while; throughout a period of time

တွင်

twìn — In, at, within; locative particle

အီဂျစ်

i-jit — Egypt; country in northeastern Africa

သို့

thoe — To, toward; directional particle in Burmese

ခေါ်ဆောင်

khaw-saung — To lead, bring, or take someone along

လာ

la — To come; directional verb toward the speaker

ခြင်း

chìn — Nominalizer suffix turning verbs into nouns

ခံ

khan — To receive, endure, or undergo something

ရ

ya — To get, obtain, or be able to

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker modifying nouns

ကြောင့်

kyaung — Because of; due to a reason or cause

ထို

htoe — That; demonstrative pronoun for distant reference

ဒေသ

de-tha — Region, area, or local territory

ဌာနေ

hta-nay — Native, indigenous; original inhabitant of place

နေထိုင်

nay-htaing — To live, reside, or dwell somewhere

သူ

thu — He, she, or that person; third-person pronoun

အကျင့်

a-kjin — Habit, practice, or customary behavior

ကို

ko — Object marker particle in Burmese sentences

သဘာဝ

tha-ba-wa — Nature; natural state or natural world

ကျ

kya — To fall; to drop; to descend

စွာ

swa — Adverbial suffix meaning in a manner of

လက်ခံ

let-khan — To accept, receive, or acknowledge something

ကျင့်သုံး

kjin-thone — To practice, apply, or put into use

ကြ

kya — Plural verb marker indicating group action

ပြီး

pyee — After completing; done; conjunction meaning then

နောက်ပိုင်း

nauk-paing — Later period; afterward; subsequent time

ကာလ

ka-la — Period of time, era, or epoch

အော့စမန်လီ

aut-sa-man-li — Ottoman; relating to the Ottoman Empire

တူရကီ

tu-ya-ki — Turkey; country bridging Europe and Asia

မှာ

hma — At, in; locative or assignment particle

အနည်းငယ်

a-nyi-ngè — A little, a small amount, slightly

သာ

tha — Only, just; restrictive emphasis particle

ပြောင်းလဲ

pyaung-lè — To change, transform, or alter something

ယခု

ya-khu — Now, currently, at this present time

အချိန်

a-chein — Time, moment, or period in general

အသန့်ရှင်းဆုံး

a-thant-shin-zone — Most pure or cleanest; highest in purity

အဆင့်အတန်း

a-hsin-a-tan — Level, rank, or social status

ဖြင့်

phyin — With, by means of; instrumental particle

တည်ရှိ

tì-shi — To exist, be located, or be present

နေ

nay — To stay, live, or remain somewhere

မြို့

myoe — Town or city; urban settlement

ဖြစ်

phyit — To be, become, or happen

လက်ရှိ

let-shi — Current, present, existing at this time

ကျမ်း

kjan — Book, scripture, or important written text

စီရင်

si-yin — To govern, rule, or administer territory

ဖွဲ့

phwè — To compose, organize, or form something

အခါ

a-kha — When, at the time of an event

၌

hnit — At, in; formal locative particle

လည်း

lè — Also, too, as well; additive particle

ပင်

pin — Indeed, even, also; emphatic particle

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle meaning said or called

ကျွန်ုပ်

kjwa-noe — I, me; formal first-person singular pronoun

ယုံကြည်

youn-kji — To believe, trust, or have faith in

မစ္စတာ

mit-sa-ta — Mister; formal title for an adult man

ပထမဆုံး

pa-hta-ma-zone — First of all; very first in order

သွားရောက်

thwa-yauk — To go and visit a place

မှု

hmu — Nominalizer suffix denoting action or affair

နှစ်ကြိမ်

hnit-kjein — Twice; two times an action is done

တစ်ဖန်

ta-hpan — Again, once more, another time

မဖြစ်

ma-phyit — Not happening; does not occur or exist

တော့

taw — Particle indicating contrast, finality, or softening

နောက်ဆုံး

nauk-zone — Last, final; at the very end

အကြိမ်

a-kjein — Time, instance, or occurrence of an action

အနေ

a-nay — State, position, or manner of being

အာရေဗျ

a-yay-bya — Arabia; the Arabian Peninsula region

နှစ်တစ်ထောင်

hnit-ta-htaung — One thousand years; a millennium

ခုနှစ်

khu-hnit — Year; used in dates and time references

ည

nya — Night; the dark hours after sunset

တန်ဖိုး

tan-bo — Value, worth, or importance of something

ရှိ

shi — To have, exist, or be present

သည့်

thìh — Relative clause marker modifying preceding noun

နှင့်

hnin — And, with; connective or comitative particle

ဓလေ့

da-lè — Custom, tradition, or habitual practice

ထုံးတမ်း

htone-tan — Custom, convention, or established tradition

လေ့လာ

lè-la — To study, learn, or investigate something

နိုင်

naing — Can, able to; potential auxiliary verb

ဘာသာပြန်

ba-tha-pyan — To translate; interpreter between languages

ချက်

chet — Point, stroke; immediately; a moment

မူ

mu — As for; topic-contrasting or original form

အင်္ဂလန်

ain-ga-lan — England; country in the United Kingdom

ဒုတိယ

du-ti-ya — Second; the second in order or rank

ပြန်ရောက်

pyan-yauk — To return and arrive back somewhere

နောက်

nauk — After, behind, or following in sequence

အတော်အတန်

a-taw-a-tan — Fairly, considerably, moderately well

မကြာမီ

ma-kja-mi — Soon, before long, in a short time

ရေးသား

yay-tha — To write or compose a text

ဇာတ်ကြောင်း

zat-kyaung — Story, narrative, or background account

အချို့

a-cho — Some, a few; part of a group

အိန္ဒိယ

ain-di-ya — India; large country in South Asia

သို့မဟုတ်

thoe-ma-hout — Or; otherwise; alternative conjunction

ပါရှန်း

pa-shan — Persian; relating to Persia or Iran

မူလ

mu-la — Original, primary, initial source or beginning

ဇစ်မြစ်

zit-myit — Origin, root, or ultimate source

သော်လည်း

thaw-lè — Although, even though, nevertheless

တို့

toe — Plural marker for pronouns and nouns

ယနေ့

ya-nay — Today; the current day

ပုံစံ

pone-san — Form, style, pattern, or format

နန်းတော်

nan-daw — Palace; royal residence of a ruler

ခေတ်ကာလ

khet-ka-la — Era, age, period of historical time

တွေးခေါ်

tway-khaw — To think deeply; intellectually capable thinker

ဘာသာစကား

ba-tha-za-ga — Language; spoken or written communication system

ပုံရိပ်

pone-yit — Image, impression, or reflection of something

ဖော်ပြ

phaw-pya — To describe, depict, or express something

အချက်

a-chet — Point, fact, or key detail of matter

ခလီဖာ

kha-li-pha — Caliph; Islamic political and religious leader

ကြီးမား

kji-ma — Great, enormous, or of great magnitude

အနီးစပ်ဆုံး

a-ni-sat-zone — Closest, nearest, most approximate to

တူညီ

tu-nyi — Same, identical, equal, or matching

စာအုပ်

sa-oat — Book; a bound written or printed text

ပတ်သက်

pat-thet — To relate to, concern, or be involved

၍

yway — Therefore, thus; connective particle in writing

အမြင်

a-myin — View, opinion, or perspective on something

ချင်း

chìn — Each other; mutual action between parties

ကွဲပြား

kwè-pya — To differ, be distinct, or vary

နာမည်ကြီး

na-myi-kji — Famous, well-known, or celebrated person

နှစ်ဦး

hnit-u — Both; two people or a pair

အရှေ့တိုင်း

a-shay-taing — The Orient; Eastern lands or Far East

ပညာရှင်

pyin-nya-shin — Scholar, expert, or learned intellectual

ပါဝင်

pa-win — To participate, be included, or take part

ခြွင်းချက်

chwin-chet — Exception, exemption, or special case

စုဆောင်းမှု

su-saung-hmu — Collection, gathering, or accumulation of things

အကောင်းဆုံး

a-kaung-zone — Best, finest, most excellent of all

ဇာတ်ကောင်

zat-kaung — Character in a story, play, or film

ဆန်

san — To oppose, go against, or contradict

သဘောတူ

tha-baw-tu — To agree, consent, or give approval

ညီ

nyi — Equal to; also younger sibling

သို့သော်

thoe-thaw — However, but, nevertheless; contrasting conjunction

ခေတ်သစ်

khet-thit — Modern era; new age or contemporary times

လူမျိုး

lu-myoe — Ethnic group, race, or nationality of people